How to get rid of the “Work or school account” and “Personal account” choice?

If you have an AD account and you create an MSA account with the same name, then you are seeing this annoying screen.

Figure: Point of confusion

Figure: My MSA account using my AD email as the primary alias

The reason for that is that your email address was added as the primary alias to your MSA account.

To remove this association, youll have to replace it with another account and make that one primary.

Solution

Heres how Ive done that for my account.

Go to https://account.microsoft.com/profile/ and click Manage your sign-in email or phone number

Add a new email – youll have an option to create a new one e.g. [email protected] or use an existing one

Make the new email primary and remove the work email

Important

If your Visual Studio subscription is linked to this MSA account and you remove the primary email address that will break your experience when you sign-in using your work email. Youll have to setup alternate account as described here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/vs-alternate-identity

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